Will Day of the Tentacle be the next LucasArts/Telltale remake?
Summer of 2009 could be much hotter than usual for adventure games fans, because other than the exhumation of the classic of classics The Secret of Monkey Island someone suggested the chance, the idea, the hope to meet again on nowadays LCDs the odd characters belonging to the most noble past of the genre and videogames on the whole. To go straight to the facts, if the new games featuring Guybrush Fruptwood will sell the right amount of copies LucasArts is more than well disposed to pull out of the freezer of memories the rest of its historical series.
Confirming that finally the folks at Lucas have restarted their brains and have realized that the eightieth Star Wars game annoyed almost everyone, community manager Brooks Brown says that if MI sells well “there’s no one at this company who doesn’t want to do these games“. According to Brown “it’s a matter of showing that there’s interest and this market is alive and get people as excited as possible about Monkey Island Special Edition to show that these things can make it“.
In the interview granted to WAtoday, Brown mostly talks about the new Monkey Island, how much the remake was a labour of true love toward LucasArts’ historical catalogue and about the pride of the company to “bring back to life” the series after a hiatus of 10 years and 20 years since release of the first episode. One could maliciously ask Brown why it took so long to bring back Monkey Island despite the adventure genre revival (updated to episodic format) going strong in these years, but seeing his demonstration of goodwill let’s just hope that things go as Brown and LucasArts want to verify what this will end up actually being.
What’s more it seems that someone is already awaiting an executive order by Lucas, ready to take up the challenge to recreate not only Monkey Island but also a series that’s even more older and layered within the adventurers’ memory: Telltale Games, the company founded by Lucas’ ex-employees with the aim to continue to make adventure games when their former employer didn’t want to hear anything about it, supports speculations on the likelihood of new adventures with old characters and stories even more insane than the original ones.
According to what revealed by Telltale CEO Dan Connors, after Sam & Max and Monkey Island the partnership between the two companies could continue with Day of the Tentacle, a chance that Connors defines as “feasible“. “I always think of Sam & Max, Day of the Tentacle and Monkey Island as the big three LucasArts franchises“, Connors says, even if until now he saw his ideas on the return of Bernard, Hoagie, Laverne, the mad professor, the psychotic tentacle and everything be regularly shot down.
Released in 1993 in floppy and CD-ROM versions, Maniac Mansion: Day of the Tentacle is the eighth game to use the SCUMM engine, it’s the retake of the odd characters of Maniac Mansion, the seminal game that in a single shot gave to the world the Lucas taste for adventures, the aforementioned SCUMM interpreter and designer Ron Gilbert and it’s considered by many as one of the highest peaks ever reached by the genre.
“We’re certainly not there yet on it“, Connors warns on the possibility of a new episodic series based on Day of the Tentacle/Maniac Mansion, “and we’re just having a ‘wait and see’ approach with Monkey. Hopefully everyone that plays the Special Edition and plays Tales really enjoy what the games bring, which is the great stories and characters of Guybrush and Elaine and LeChuck“.
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We want Day of tentacle Remake !
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